So many great memories of listening to this song. Twins extra inning world series win. Toronto is repeating as champions as Joe Carter rounds the bases. Those Braves and Barry Bonds' Pittsburgh teams always fell a little short during the playoffs. Great memories of my childhood.
best mlb theme song. That Twins Braves WS was the greatest ever and one of the best sports series of all time. Few yrs later KINGS vs Montreal Canadiens. Rangers vs Canucks for NHL. Those 3 events were the best sports moments in decades.
Even though the Braves lost to the Twins, Blue Jays, and then the Phillies in consecutive years, this theme still takes me back to being 11-13 years old. what a time it was.
Also a Braves fan. I heard this same theme on a radio broadcast during or immediately after (or both) the 1995 NLCS series against the Reds, which the Braves swept that series on their way to winning the World Series that year. So I have some good memories associated with this song.
0:33 “hello everybody and welcome to the meadows for another matchup in this mlw season, we have the cobras versus the preds, alongside Tommy coughlin I am Kyle Schultz”
A composer has done his job when someone (who doesn't even watch MLB that often)still have this theme song in his memories long after it was made. This is one of my all-time favorite sports themes and I'm happy someone posted it. CBS had a damn good music team working on these things.
Brings back memories of the 1990 World Series and A's vs the Reds! The greatest upset in World Series history and one of the most dominant performances.
That was absolutely shocking! The first ever WS broadcasted on CBS ! The Nasty Boys had something the As weren’t ready for! Probably the most shocking sweep in the history of American pro sports definitely the most shocking sweep in World Series history ! Nobody saw that coming!
+mrwrestlingtape1 DirecTV Ch. 221 & Dish Ch. 158. They also have a link to find what channel your local cable provider carries CBS SportsNet on: www.cbssportsnetwork.com/channel-finder Aside, they also televise MiLB Minor League Baseball, NCAA football & basketball games, 'Knockout Night at the D' boxing matches commentated by former WWE & current 'NJPW Wrestling on AXS TV' commentator Jim Ross, reruns of Showtime Championship Boxing, the World Surfing League, PBR rodeo, Arena Football, and starting this July: NASL soccer (exclusing NY Cosmos games due to an exclusive deal with ONE World Sports, which can now be streamed on FuboTV).
+Jose Acevedo (JoseTwitterFan) Not sure I get those channels. I live in NJ/NY area and have Cablevision. Can you please upload a clip of it onto your youtube page or find a video with it as an example. Would love to see it. You can email me too. Wrestlevessel@aol.com
This is one of the songs that defined my childhood. Being a White Sox fan, it was a rare thing to have my team in the playoffs, and when they won the AL Western Division in 1993, we made sure to tape all of the ALCS games against Toronto. I watched those tapes over and over and over as a kid, and I will always remember this song!
It brings me back to those chilling days of the Reds' sweep over the Oakland A's in the 1990 World Series with Jack Buck and Tim McCarver as Pat O'Brien hosted the event. Great coverage!!! Who can ever forget Jose Rijo striking out Rickey Henderson to begin the game "Strike three and you're out and this is the way this one starts."
What a CBS baseball intro, by Pat O'Brien, should have sounded like before Game 3 of the 2010 World Series: "When you think of the Lone Star State, you think of good ol' fashioned barbecue. Yet for many people who aren't in the familiar, this state--and the city of Arlington, between Dallas and Fort Worth--is bleeding red, Rangers red! So come on in, grab some brisket and the drink of your choice, and saddle up because truly, it IS baseball time...in Texas! For the first time ever, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, opened in 1994, will host a World Series game. It's Game Three between the San Francisco Giants and the homestanding Texas Rangers...and judging by the sights and sounds, you'll know that here, despite the home team being down two-nothing in the series, EVERYTHING is bigger!" (camera pans around the cheering crowd, wearing their red Rangers jerseys as we cut to the desk)
Curses were meant to be broken. The Red Sox ended the curse of the Bambino in 2004. The White Sox erased the Black Sox curse in 2005. And now, tonight, here in Cleveland, the Chicago Cubs have the chance to end an 108-year drought. So grab a deep dish pizza and the drink of your choice, because tonight we could see history made. It's Game Seven of the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, and believe me when I tell you, to long suffering Cubs fans, no game has ever meant more!
Imagine yourself in Game 3 of the 1981 World Series, when Fernando Valenzuela's pitching helped the Los Angeles Dodgers, then down by two games, to win that game against the New York Yankees, which then led up to their victory in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium. Yesterday, Walker Buehler's pitching almost did help the Dodgers win Game 3, but win they did after a record 7 long hours and 18 straight innings later in Dodgers Stadium, when Max Muncy scored the game winning walkoff against the Boston Red Sox in what is now part of the history books. So grab on a California pizza and a drink of your choice for tonight in Los Angeles, it's Game Four of the 2018 World Series between the Dodgers and the Red Sox, two teams that have never played each other since 1916, and with the Dodgers fans expecting a repeat of what happened 37 years ago and the Red Sox hoping to win tonight with a win away from their first World Series win in 5 years, believe me that it's gonna be a big game that should be won by one of these storied baseball franchises!
In hindsight, CBS shouldn't have been so aggressive in beating NBC and ABC to the punch in regards to landing the MLB contract. They were simply setting themselves up for massive failure. CBS hadn't covered Major League Baseball in any shape or form since the early '60s (when Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese were calling games for them). So instead of dipping their toes in to the water (CBS theoretically could've replaced ABC as the secondary MLB broadcasting partner), we were forced to "take CBS or leave it". Meanwhile, Major League Baseball on NBC (particularly the "Game of the Week") had grown to become an institution. It was to baseball what CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada" was to the National Hockey League or "Monday Night Football" on ABC was to the National Football League. When CBS landed the baseball contract in December 1988, it clearly gave fans the impression that all of the owners and Commissioner Peter Ueberroth cared about was one quick, massive payday.
Very true. This is what the MLB baseball TV package on network TV IMO should have looked like assuming the 1994 strike was going to happen no matter what until Fox came to the picture around 1995-'96.. Keep in mind only at most maybe 50% of TV households in America in 1990 had access to Basic Cable and ESPN. Regular Season and All Star Game. Saturday night GOW NBC and select couple of Monday Night Games in June, July and August. CBS select Sunday Afternoon games from Mid-April until early Sept.(start of NFL)and Friday Night games in Sept. Sunday afternoon games shown around the PGA tour. CBS and NBC rotate the All star game every other year. ESPN-Sunday Night game of the week, Wednesday Night doubleheaders and Sunday afternoon games in September. LCS Playoffs(until 1995) Similar to ABC and NBC between 1976-1989 the network NOT SHOWING THE WORLD SERIES SHOWS THESE Games. Divisional playoffs (1995 only) ESPN shows almost all of the games with CBS(Saturday evening prime time)and NBC (Sunday Night prime time)broadcasting a couple of games. World Series Rotating between CBS and NBC (say CBS covers it in '90, '92 and '94)NBC in ('91, '93 and '95)
CBS did a terrible job. In their time, they didn't even have a game every week of the season, as NBC and ABC had done. NBC was and remains the best network ever to cover baseball.
I don't think that CBS ever felt that they truly had to put their heart and soul into covering baseball like NBC did. The main reason why they spent so much to get baseball is because by the end of the '80s, they were in third place behind ABC and NBC. CBS on that end, felt that the best way to get people to watch their shows (remember that CBS was often ridiculed for being the network for senior citizens) again was to lure them in with major sports during the fall like the World Series. This is also why they got into the Winter Olympics business come the '90s. CBS lack of regular season coverage (whenever CBS didn't have a golf event to cover was pretty much when baseball would come back on) is a big factor in why ESPN doubled down so much on baseball during the this period.
for some this bring backs great memories but to me who was 10,11, 12 in 90-92 and a pittsburgh pirates fan it is pure tourture. glen braggs robbing carmello martinzez in 90, getting shout out in games 6 & 7 at home in 91 and i dont even wanna talk about it 92.. it still makes me wanna run up in my room and cry.
Who can forget the 1991 World Series? The Atlanta Braves vs. the Minnesota Twins! It was the Twins second appearance in the World Series since their 1987 World Series Championship. I think CBS did a masterful job at covering the American League Championship Series and the National League Championship Series; followed by the World Series! Game 6 of the 1991 World Series is particularly memorable. That was the game in which Kirby Puckett sent the Twins to the seventh game with his bottom of the 10th inning game winning home run! Jack Buck's call is legendary … "Deep to left center, for Mitchell, and we'll see ya tomorrow night!" The night of Game 6 was October 26, 1991. It is especially memorable because Saturday, Oct. 26, 1991 is my wedding day!
Oh God, I cried for Charlie after that. Kirby won the series for Minnesota. That homer, the catch he made against Gant. TRUELY a remarkable player. The best World Series ever PERIOD!!! Hats off to you and your team.
And a drive hit to right field, Sierra going back, looking up and this game is tied, Roberto Alomar, with his second home run in as many days has tied the game for the Jays. Greatest sports call ever!!! Dick Stockton gives me chills to this day with that memorable call in game 4 of the 92 ALCS. Will never forget it!!
Yes, he did. I have a copy of one game of the 1990 NLCS when it went off, and it said the theme was composed by John Tesh. I think this is the best sports theme I've ever heard. CBS also does good with their college footbal theme.
OMG my favorite theme song as a kid that I've had in my head for 15 years and couldn't remember it. I got chills when I heard it again just now. Thank you for the upload.
This is the Major League Baseball on CBS theme song that was later used by Vintage Enterprises, Inc. for their MLB Coverage on PTV-4 and later used by GMA Network. It was notably a BGM to the Vintage Sports/PTV-4 live coverage of Major League Baseball's Greatest World Series of the Century, the 1991 World Series, the most legendary Championship series in MLB history, which was called by Ed Picson (Play-by-play) and Quinito Henson (Color Commentary)
You can argue that because of their current prime time ratings dominance, CBS doesn't really need MLB that badly when compared to say back in the late '80s-early '90s. If they did get into MLB again, I could easily see them team up w/ Turner Sports/TBS, their partner in NCAA basketball coverage, and their '90s Winter Olympic coverage.
thank you for posting this. by far one of the best sports themes ever and short lived. Like CBS college football it sounds very triumphant with the horns.
The biggest mistakes that CBS made w/ their 1990-93 MLB coverage (at least in my estimation): *Not hiring Vin Scully to be their lead play-by-play man. After NBC lost the MLB package to CBS following the 1989 season, Scully was for all intents and purposes, a "free agent". Scully of course, worked at CBS prior to joining NBC in 1983. Scully would've given CBS instant credibility (similar to when Fox hired Pat Summerall and John Madden to front their NFL coverage in 1994). I'm guessing that CBS wanted to put their own personal "thumbprint" and they thought that Scully was too intertwined w/ NBC's coverage. *Pairing Jack Buck together w/ Tim McCarver. As great of an announcer Jack Buck was in his own right, he just never fit or adapted as well it seemed like on TV. I don't know exactly whose fault it really was, but Buck and McCarver were arguably like "oil and water". I know that Jack Buck was a last minute replacement for Brent Musburger (and Buck and McCarver arguably didn't have enough time to develop a proper rhythm together), but Buck was perhaps too much of an "old school" type of announcer to really translate well to a modern TV audience. *Overemphasizing Tim McCarver. McCarver during his prime, was arguably the best color commentator on TV (he and Tony Kubek were probably the first real "modern day" baseball color commentators on TV). The problem however, is that Tim McCarver (even back then) arguably had a bad habit of being too verbose and being over-analytical. McCarver was perhaps able to get away w/ that w/o much trouble at ABC because he was often on big games a paired w/ Al Michaels and Jim Palmer. But at CBS, they pretty much anticipated or expected him to be the main star, instead of the play-by-play man (this is in part, what got Jack Buck in trouble). *Their non-consistent and erratic regular season scheduling (add to that that they broadcast even less regular season games than NBC did). CBS could literally go a whole month w/o broadcasting a baseball game because of their other sports commitments like golf. It became quite apparent that CBS lived and breathed for October so that they could have a better platform to promote their fall shows. *Overpaying for the MLB package by about $500 million.
Terrence Clay And Scully was also making the call for CBS Radio at the time CBS Television held the rights. Talk about a missed opportunity right there.
***** I look at it this way. Jack Buck was perhaps the more raw, emotional announcer while Sean McDonough was more polished (at that point) and straight-forward/basic.
***** If it were up to me, I would've had Vin Scully team w/ Tim McCarver on the #1 crew and Sean McDonough (he started working w/ CBS around the same time that they started covering MLB) team w/ Jim Kaat on the #2 crew. I would've kept Jack Buck on CBS Radio w/ Johnny Bench and John Rooney for World Series coverage.
Terrence Clay Well said Terrence. The overpayment of the MLB contract also played a huge role in the near fatal 1994-'95 which should be discussed in another thread. Back to this topic, MLB bosses back then should taken slightly less to remain on one of then other "big 2". According to reports i read from back in late 1989, ABC in their Pre Disney owned days wanted out of covering MLB and wanted to switch their MLB coverage to ESPN. Between 1985-'89 ABC only covered a limited schedule of regular season games and was mainly the 2nd network with then primary rights holder NBC.Thus for the 1990-'95 TV package since back then at most only about 40-50% of the US TV households even had basic cable, NBC should still had the Saturday Game of the week all season long. While CBS replaced ABC with a limited Monday/Thursday Night prime time regular season games. For the '90-93 post season CBS would have shared with NBC the LCS and World Series.These boneheaded business decisions of this era which led to the 1994-'95 strike almost killed MLB. MLB only survived because of how great a game, baseball is.
Terrence Clay And had Greg Gumbel as the studio host mainly for the post season. Pat O' Brien while not terrible, was better suited for studio pre-game host when CBS had NBA coverage.
Flashback for me... 1993 White Sox Playoff series! Sadly lost to the Blue Jays, but it was a good series! This theme song sounds so nostalgically amazing!
The kick and the 0-2 pitch...here's a bouncer to first, fielded by Hunter, he races to the bag! And the Atlanta Braves have won the National League championship! Strap on your dancing shoes, we're headed for the big ball, Atlanta!!!
Ian Eagle: A glorious Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine; it's the return of Major League Baseball on CBS as the New York Yankees have traveled to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers in this, the final of a four-game set between the two teams. Good afternoon everyone, along with former Dodger Kirk Gibson, I am Ian Eagle, welcoming you to this Sunday afternoon matinee, and Kirk, the tension between these two teams in this interleague matchup is sky high today.
Brings back the best memories of my childhood when baseball ⚾️ was the best. Pat Obrien the host Tim MaCarver, Jim Kaat, Sean McDonough, and Bob Costas the sports casters. Those are beautiful memories
Did you ever find that full audio of this theme? I was 7 in '91, living in Minnesota so obviously rooting for the Twins (still do) but the Braves became my favorite NL team because of that series and I continue to follow them almost as closely as I do the Twins. I loved the starts of the games in Atlanta to this theme when it would cut from that montage they'd show as the theme started to the first arial shot of old Fulton County Stadium and down to the stands with the chopping--gives me chills
"Deep to left.....there's Ron Gant's first ever Grand Slam." "The unlikeliest of heros wins the National League Championship Series for the Atlanta Braves." "And Atlanta pulls out Game 7 with three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning.."
Edgehead10075 big also but remember that alomars homerun put them up 3-1 in the series that they eventually won and captured their first ever title. So to me it was the biggest by far.
Two things about this theme: 1. Even though I'm a Dodgers fan, this song captures the emotions the Brewers, Cubs, Rays, and all the other cinderella stories of this season. 2. This song would fit perfectly with the new MLB Network opening in 2009. Great theme! Thanks 04bostonredsox07!!!
In hindsight, it's a serious anomaly that CBS was over 20+ years ago, the main network outlet for Major League Baseball. I'm well aware that 1990-93 wasn't the first time that CBS broadcast baseball. But their early '90s coverage is naturally, the one that we most remember them for. And even so, all that I hear or recall about CBS' baseball coverage in that time frame was that 1) they somehow lost $500 million off of a $1.2 billion, four year contract 2) they in effect, killed the Saturday "Game of the Week" 3) they fired Jack Buck after the '91 World Series in favor of Sean McDonough because he apparently wasn't working properly w/ Tim McCarver 4) Brent Musburger was supposed to be the lead announcer, but got fired by CBS on April Fools Day 1990 before he got the chance. CBS was when you get right down to it, a place-holder of sorts and the true beginning of network televised baseball's "dork age", which really peaked w/ the succeeding contract, The Baseball Network. I seriously wonder if CBS doesn't view their early '90s baseball coverage w/o any sort of shame (due to how much money they lost off of their investment). It certainly isn't identifiable to the CBS Sports brand as say, their NFL, college basketball/March Madness, or Masters golf coverage.
How can I forget CBS's coverage of the 1991 World Series? Game 6 of the World Series, Atlanta at Minnesota was played on my wedding night! My wife and I were married on Oct. 26, 1991.
04BostonRedSox07, thank you SO MUCH for finding this theme song! You have no idea how grateful I am to you for your finding this...Way-Past-Cool job, my friend! :) And, I'm Canadian...1992/1993 Blue Jays...awesome days then! ^^
Who remembers the 90 Reds? All I know is we swept the mighty A's and this was playing. Baseball on CBS would have been a hit except for some guy named Michael Jordan who lead the NBA past MLB.
FOX'sand TBS's contract with Baseball runs out after the 2021 season. The network that makes the most sense is NBC and here's why. Saturday afternoons would work. NBC and NBCSN will get Baseball playoffs with NBC getting the World Series. CBS would not work because of College Football, College Basketball and PGA events especially after The Masters. ESPN will still have Sunday Night Baseball and Mondays and Wednesdays TBS will still have the Sunday Afternoon games and the Playoffs. NBC's coverage of the PGA Tour and Notre Dame Football would not be hurt either. It would be good to see NBC revive the "Game of the Week"
No, keep Fox around, at least for the World Series, but bring back NBC and keep Turner Sports as well for the Division Series and the League Championship Series, with NBC and Turner Sports alternating years for the National and American League Championship Series.
From Vin Scully (NBC Sports)/Al Michaels (ABC Sports) to the late Jack Buck (later Sean McDonough) (CBS Sports)... Remembering the 1990 World Series, when the Cincinnati Reds upset the defending 1989 World Champions the Oakland As in four game sweep (This was forgotten after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake when ABC coverage of the 1989 World Series was postponed during the Pre-Game of Game 3)..
As an Atlanta Braves fan this theme song is quite nightmarish for obvious reasons...but I still love the song, have been looking for it forever and am glad you posted it. Brings back horrible memories (sorry but Kirby Puckett can burn in hell) and at the time, away from the game, a fun time in my life. Thanks again.
Yes! This song at the ending credits reminded me so much of that memorable game 6 Twin's win in extra innings and it rained I believe, as mentioned by Rick04404
How could I have forgotten? I'm a big Twins fan from North Dakota. In fact, Game 6 was played on my wedding night! All of my wife's relatives were over at her apartment watching the game on TV. Many of them were from the Twin Cities.
